Lamp for road-vehicles.



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C. RUGERS 6a G. T. PARKER. LAMP FOR RAD VEHICLES. APPLICATION FILED rnn.a,1eo9'.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES ROGERS AND GEORGE T. PARKER, OF ORANGE, NEWKJERSEYySAIDPR-KER ASSIGNOR TO SAID ROGERS. f

LAMP FOR ROAD-VEHICLES.

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Application led February 3, 1909. Serial No. 475,767.'

To del whim. it may concern:

Beitknown that we, CHARLES Roenes and GEORGE T. PARKER, both citizens oi the United States, and residents of-Orange, in

Ithe county of Essex, in the State of New vJersey, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamps for Road-Vehicles, of which'the following is a l speciiication.

The principal object of our invention is to increase at night certainty of guidance and security of rogression in road vehicles equipped wit i lamps supported and disposed to project light in advance in the direction of progression oi the vehicle.

Road vehicles have been heretofore generally provided with lamps on either side in- 'direction of progression, but at an angle thereto, thus preventing the driver from as clearly seeing as is desirable for the time be ing the ground and other objects in the exact direction of progression on the curve.A We obviate these objections, and attain-the objects stated, by means of our invention, which consists, in its broadest aspect, in constructing and su )porting the lamps movably relatively to the iody member of the vehicle, and providing them with means whereby the said lamps are automatically caused to turn or swing in unison with each other and with said movement of the axles relatively to the body of the vehicle in rounding curves and the like.

ln understanding our invention, there is to be considered, as one group, the said body member ot the vehicle embracing thecar and all elements therewith rigidly connected so as to necessarily m'ove in unison with said body, and, as 'another group, the running gea-r and its connections including the bearing wheels, their axles, and other connections likewise so connected together as to be Fig. 5 is a si( the frame members 3 of the machine.

movable in unison with eachother relatively' to the former group comprising the body Y and its connections.

To illustrate our invention and enable others to i practice it we will now describethe preferred form and combination of devices whereby we have successfully applied it, it being understood that we do not confine ourselves to the particular meansso described.

` Referring now to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of part of the. forward part ol a road vehicle,` in this instance an automobile, and showing one form' and arrangement of devices .adapted to embody our invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail top plan view of the left 'hand lamp bracket. Fig. 3 is a similar enlarged detail 'top plan. view of the right hand lamp bracket.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged cross sectional view taken on the lline a' x shown in Fig. 2, and shows the lam'.) supporting rods in position.

le elevation of the left hand bracket, looking from the left in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a crossvsectional view taken on the line ,i/JJ of Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is an enlarged vertical sectional view of the ball and socket connection for the lamp turningdevice.

Referring to the figures, we illustrate in* Fig. 1, by 1 and 2, lamp brackets secured to The bracket .1 has mounted pivotally thereon a swivel frame 4, consisting of the bracket arms 5 and the lever arm 6, vthe arms 5 being adapted to support removably in this linstance the-rods 7 (see Figs. 2 and 4) which in turn are adapted to support a common form of head or reiiector lamps for automobiles 8' (seetFig. 1).

In order that the swivel frame 4 may be turned easily, we interpose between the said frame 4 andthe bracket `1 (see Fig. 4) balls 9, 9, which constitute a ball bearing of the ordinary form of construction, the swivel frame 4, being provided with a spindle 10, which is pivotally secured in the bracket 1 by a nut' 11, as shown in Fig. 4. Likewise the bracket 2 pivotally supports a swivel frame 12, which consists of the bracket arms 13 and lever arm 15. The arms 13 are adapted to support the lamp supporting rods 16 which in turn sup port and secure a head reflector lamp 17 as shown in Fig. l.

In order that the frames -4 and 12 can. swing simultaneously with each other, We provide the framey 12 with a gear '18, shown yin'rliigs. 3 and 6, which is carried .by the squared ortion 19. of the spindle (shown in Fig. 3 the said spindle 20 being pivotally secured in the bracket 2 by the nut 21. l Between the gear 18 and the bracket 2 we place balls 22, 22, which constitute the well known ToI ball bearing support for the frame 12. operate the vgear 18 we employ an intermeshing pinion 23 which in turn is pivotally selired to the.bra'cket 2. vThe pinion 23 cara' lever arm 24 which is adapted to operatblsaid pinion.

Referring again to Fig. 1 it will be observed that the leverarms 6 and 15 are connected with each otherv by a rod 25,1v the raid rod comprising two' members 26 and 27, which are yin turn connected with each other by a tuln buckle 28, the adjacent ends within the 'turnbuckle of the said members being threaded right and left handed respectively. By meansof the said rod 25, which is offset in order tio allow for the turning ofthe crank arm 29, the two arms 6 and 15 are caused to Vswing in unison and at the same angle with '-rear end is engaged b a spindle 34, which in turn is carried by a lock35 secured to the reach rod 36 which transmits `movement from the steering wheel of the vehicle or ma- Vchine to. the knuckle' 37, which knuckle is 45.' its function, a-com ound movement -in a forceive the ball 43, on the end of thespindle 34.v

connected to a corresponding knuckle 38 by 'a cross rod 39, as is well known inthe construction of such devices for road yehicles. M ,represents the axle bearing of one of the forwardwheels upon which the hub 45 is shown in pers ective in Fig. 1.

` As thegeac rod 36 has, when performing wardl and outwar direction, we prefer to make the connection between the spindle 34 and the block 35 of a universal nature.- In this instance the block 35 consists of the v members 40 and 41 shown in Fig. 7 secured together and totherod 36 by a bolt 42. The upper'end of the members are recessed to re- The spindle 34 is mounted for rotary movement only as is clearly shown in the gure. Other forms of universal joint co nn ectio nr can and 12, and

also be used, but we have illustrated such movement here as we have found practicable in our invention.

It will be observed that our spindle connection with 'the reach-rod transmits power from the latter to the lever 24 with considerable ylost motion, thus reducing, as is desirable, the amount of strain imparted to the lever 24, and thereby to the lamps andtheir connections, thus diminishing the tendency of the lamps to oscillate in conse uence of oscillations imparted to the axles y inequalities in the road..

From the foregoing description of our improved devices it is quite apparent that as the rod 36 causes the front wheels to turn, in order to guide the vehicle in an desired direction, the reflector lamps wl lbe turned correspondingly in unison with the front wheels ofthe machine so as to cast their light along the roadway as has been .heretofore de-.

scribed.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure byl Letters Patent is the following, viz:--

1. In combinationin aroad vehicle a body member, a reach-rod supported on and movable independently of said member, a luality of frames rotatably mounted onsai body I member, a lamp carried by e'a'ch lsaid frame, a

lever arm secured to each saidirame, a rod connecting said lever-arms, a gear connected with one of said lamps, a pinionintermeshing with said gear, a lever secured to said pinion and means t0 transmit ower `from said reach-rod to said last mentioned lever whereby said lamps are rotated in unison.

2. In combination in a road vehicle a body member, a reach-rod supported on and movable independently of said member, a lurality of frames rotatably mounted on sai body member, a lamp carried by each said frame, a lever-arm secured to each said frame, arod connecting said lever-arms, a gear connected ywith one of saidlamps, a pinion intermeshing CHARLES ROGERS. GEORGE T. PARKER.

Witnesses:

PHILIP C. PEOR, GEORGE G. MEASURES. 

